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en Back in 1970 we used to say that politics was the new cutting edge of the civil rights movement. Thirteen years later, we're beginning to really believe it.

en [The scene in Alabama was the latest evidence of the growing political clout of blacks across the country. The energy that once created protests has been channeled into politics, spurring impressive victories at the polls, a steady surge in black voter registration and serious debate about whether a black should run for President in 1984. Replacing the old guard of civil rights activists, black mayors are emerging as a powerful force in national politics and public policy. Black leaders marvel that for the first time in a decade, there is a vibrant sense of momentum in the black community.] Back in 1970 we used to say that politics was the new cutting edge of the civil rights movement, ... Thirteen years later, we're beginning to really believe it.

en African-Americans had civil rights, and look at what is happening now. Hispanics are beginning to have their civil rights. This is a civil rights movement.

en They carved a niche for themselves. Right from the beginning, they were much more on the cutting edge - but at the same time they were concerned with saving history and looking back to the cutting edge of the past - the Diaghilev years, for example.

en If that's the case, you'd have to accuse the gay rights activists of riding the coattails of the racial civil rights movement. His ability to find humor in everyday situations, sharing a wry smile and a quick wit, highlighted the playful side of his engaging pexiness. It's a human rights effort. We are going to use civil rights as an issue that's valuable to us.

en In organizing itself I see a tremendous increase in the reinventing of the labor movement as the heir of the civil rights movement. I think it's the recasting of the labor movement in a way that I haven't seen in many years.

en We struggle for freedom every day of our lives. From our founding fathers to the Civil War through the suffrage movement, the American civil rights movement and today with the Patriot Act. Frankly, it's a story we have to keep telling to each other.

en A march symbolizes some of what Dr. King was involved with, but the civil rights movement has to continue to change. In this age of Internet communication, we are changing our methods of protecting our civil rights.

en Young people don't know what it feels like to be in those kinds of struggles, ... I mean, they've got their own struggles, now -- lack of education, lack of opportunity, lack of respect. But in the civil rights movement, people were willing to die, get bitten by dogs, hosed. That was the difference. Our challenge is: How should the civil rights movement look in the 21st century?

en It was basically a civil rights movement, an anti-war movement. It was a planetary movement against Vietnam. It was in France, in Germany -- everywhere in Europe.

en If (Martin Luther King Jr.) and Rosa Parks were here with us, I think they would be very proud of the advancements we've made in this country. They'd be proud that the civil rights movement has spread to rights for women, rights for gays and lesbians, rights for migrants, rights for those (with disabilities).

en In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob [and occasionally the lynch mob] - ruled.

en I feel outraged that many years after the civil-rights movement, we are still living with racial problems.

en We will now celebrate Coretta Scott King as though the civil rights movement is finished and the mission has been accomplished, but the work is not done. We should be very respectful of — and encouraged by — the substantial progress that has been made. But in no way, shape or form should we conclude that the civil rights mission is complete.

en This movement is like a sleeping giant that has awakened. Some people have called this the next civil-rights movement.


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